Men still first

While the cause of feminism has achieved much since the days of Emily Davison and the Epsom Derby, there is still a long way to go

Tuesday June 11 2013, 1.01am, The Times

Tuesday June 11 2013, 1.01am, The Times

Sir, The blue plaque outside 18 Brookside where Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the veteran leader of Britain’s constitutional suffragists, and her daughter, Philippa Fawcett, the first woman to obtain the top score in the mathematical tripos, lived in Cambridge bears the inscription, “Henry Fawcett ... lived here with his wife and daughter, 1874-1884”.